This is how Pranab worships Ma Durga

This is how Pranab worships Ma Durga

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is known as a man of all seasons, a man of punctuality and precision. He is also the Congress's troubleshooter.

On Thursday, however, the finance minister was in a new avatar, donning the priest's mantle at his ancestral home at Miriti, his ancestral village near Kirnahar in Birbhum district, about 250 km from Kolkata.

He worshipped Goddess Durga at his ancestral home in Mirati village on 'Mahasaptami', the first day of the four-day long puja.

Mukherjee's grandfather, late Jangaleswar Mukherjee, started the puja, which is almost 100 years old. Mukherjee's father, Kamadakinkar, continued the tradition and now the onus is on the finance minister to keep the practice alive.

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Image: Pranab Mukherjee is all set to do the Chondipath.Photographs: Dipak Chakraborty